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Updated 2025-07-06 13:16
The Israeli Defense Forces paid for this soldier's sex reassignment
He entered Israel's military as a woman. Now he's an officer, and a man, and the IDF paid for his gender transition.
Organizations try to fight 'brain waste' and get highly trained immigrants back to work
Many immigrants' previous professions can slip away because of red tape, economics and hefty requirements. "Welcome Back" centers are trying to help with the hurdles.
Canadians reached out to Syrian refugees. Now they hesitate to let go.
Last year, thousands of Syrian refugees headed to Canada, where families had agreed to sponsor the newcomers. One year later, some wonder if the programs have done enough to promote independence.
Here's a new climate change reality that Trump's new policies ignore
As President Trump turns US government policy away from the realities of climate change, a new scientific study confirms a link between climate pollution and dangerously extreme weather. The irony of the timing is not lost on the study's lead author.
The ultimate supergroup: Rockin' nuns from Peru
These sisters play rock that would make any power band proud.
Israel teaches cybersecurity skills to its high schoolers
A program for gifted 10th-graders teaches them coding, encryption and how to defend a computer network against hacking. Many of the students will end up in Israel's equivalent of the NSA.
Farmers in Northern Ireland know Brexit will be bad for them — they just don't know how bad
With Brexit, many in Northern Ireland feel resentful that they're being dragged out of the European Union against their will.
The US Women's National Hockey Team went after equal pay and fair treatment — and won
Until Wednesday, the team had been locked in a 15-month contract dispute with the sport's national governing body, USA Hockey, over unfair pay and unequal treatment.
This young, LGBT advocate isn’t your average Brexiteer
"Brainwashed." That's how Darren Grimes describes many Britons of his age group who voted to remain in the EU. Grimes, who runs a website touting the benefits of Brexit, says Britain will be much better off on its own.
One of the world's best chefs says you can taste the love in really good food
To Chef Eric Ripert, a Buddhist and author of "32 Yolks, From My Mother's Table to Working the Line," a trip to monasteries in South Korea has led to a spiritual awakening.
Sitting across from ‘the Ghost of ISIS’
Abu Islam al-Iraqi, a former ISIS commander who ran clandestine cells of suicide bombers in the Iraqi town of Kirkuk has had some time to think about what he's done. Author Robin Wright says he has few regrets.
'What a total God shot!' Understand that? Then you speak Christianese.
Linguists call Christianese an emerging religiolect, spoken mainly by evangelical protestants. Christians themselves are divided on whether it's helpful to use such coded language.
Two US coal miners, two very different perspectives on the future of coal
Trump surrounded himself with coal miners when he signed his energy executive order, a very public signal that he was making good on a campaign promise to end the "war on coal." But not all miners agree on the future of their industry.
Brexit: The end of a loveless marriage
The divorce is going to take a while.
Buffalo used to be a city filled with millionaires. It plans to get rich again by betting against Trump.
When you think of American hubs of green energy innovation, you probably don't think of Buffalo, New York. Yes, Buffalo. But guess what, soon, you could.
'How will I live there?' Asylum seekers in Hungary are detained in shipping containers.
A new law takes effect Tuesday in Hungary to lock all asylum-seekers into detention camps made out of shipping containers, while their papers are being processed. Refugees are responding with fear.
Former UN climate chief: Trump's energy order not 'a big deal' for climate agreement
Christiana Figueres says the landmark Paris agreement on climate change is “not at risk” due to Donald Trump's policies.
Arab Americans lobbied for their own US census box. Will it backfire?
The Census Bureau has recommended that a new Middle East and North Africa (MENA) racial category be added to the next census, coming in 2020. This could be interpreted as an alarming development — but advocacy groups have been pushing for it for a while.
Some of the Chibok girls are getting an education and a new future
Boko Haram means "western education is forbidden." But some of the Chibok girls who managed to escape the extremist group are getting that forbidden education.
Tributes pour in for Amhed Kathrada, an anti-apartheid leader imprisoned with Mandela
Kathrada got four college degrees while in prison on South Africa's Robben Island.
‘I saw everything burning’: Iraqi survivors of a suspected US coalition airstrike speak
The Pentagon has confirmed that the ISIS-fighting coalition carried out a strike on March 17 in an area of western Mosul where residents say more than 100 civilians were killed. US officials say they're investigating the incident.
South Sudanese culture is at risk, but this Lost Boy wants to protect it
Dominic Raimondo, a former Lost Boy of Sudan who now lives in the US, visited the Kakuma refugee camp with a mission — to protect Sudanese culture.
See how Tuvan throat singers can sing multiple notes at once
A new video from Science Friday shows how Tuvan throat singers can coax soundscapes from their voices.
Russia's weekend protesters were young, organized, and ready to challenge Putin
Sunday’s rally, organized on social media, proved a test of the power of the internet in Russia — and of the opposition.
Trump aide Jared Kushner set up meetings with world leaders. Now, he faces questions about his Russian contacts.
Jared Kushner, 36, was Trump's main intermediary with foreign governments during the 2016 election campaign and now plays that role in the White House.
Green homes in Buffalo are keeping poor people warm. But Trump’s budget could hurt that.
Like many Rust Belt cities, as industry left the area, Buffalo saw a huge decrease in population and a spike in poverty. But community activists are getting creative, finding ways to help poor people save money and get jobs. And some efforts are fighting climate change too.
Drought doesn't cause famine. People do.
These days, hunger is a political issue spurred on by human conflict.
Automakers are pushing to reverse fuel efficiency gains
Under President Barack Obama, the EPA worked closely with industry to reach a fleet fuel economy standard of about 54 mpg, starting in 2025. Now, the auto industry lobby has asked EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to consider rolling back that standard.
Before plate tectonics, the Earth may have been covered by one giant shell
New research confronts the idea that plate tectonics started when the Earth was formed.
Human moderators do the dirty work of keeping disturbing content off the internet
The task of filtering harmful content from social websites and apps falls largely to humans — and those who do the job say it takes a toll.
If Yemen's Houthis weren't Iranian proxies before, they could be soon
Yemen's Ansar Allah, better known as the Houthis, were a homegrown religious-political movement receiving little more than moral support from Iran. But their war with Saudi Arabia is causing Iran to send weapons, risking a real proxy war.
The 20-year-old biopic on Tejana star Selena almost didn't happen
How a teenage fan convinced her dad to make the movie.
'Get Out,' with its genre-bending critique of racism, took cues from thrillers about sexism
"Get Out" is a critique of relations between black and white Americans, wrapped up in a funny and scary horror movie.
An unlikely suspect is arrested in connection to over 100 bomb threats against US Jewish centers
An Israeli teenager is suspected of being behind the bomb threats. The big question is: What were his motives?
How a Muslim lawyer and critic of Showtime’s 'Homeland' became a consultant for the show
The TV show has been criticized for stereotyping Muslims as terrorists. But in season six, the show is striving for a much more nuanced portrayal.
How a massacre of a village's Jews by their neighbors in WWII Poland is remembered — and misremembered
Memory can be slippery, especially when there's incentive to forget, or misremember. In the Polish village of Jedwabne, residents long said Nazis were responsible for the massacre, one hot day in July 1941, of hundreds of Jews in the village. Then evidence emerged that the villagers of Jedwabne had killed their own neighbors.
Lebanese women fight to overturn law that protects rapists
Ali Awada, advocacy and campaign manager for the gender-equality group ABAAD, has been working to convince politicians and the Lebanese people that it's time to abolish the law.
Egypt's Mubarak, a symbol of dashed hopes, goes free
In six years, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak has gone from symbolizing the hubris of Middle East dictators swept away by the Arab Spring uprisings to an emblem of dashed hopes.
The World's music features this week: Emily Scott Robinson, Ondatrópica and music from outer space
Here are our latest music highlights.
Did Putin put out a contract on a Russian whistleblower and critic?
Denis Voronenkov was a former Russian lawmaker. He was also a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. And he was assassinated in broad daylight on Thursday in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. Ukraine's leaders are pointing the finger at Russia.
Post-Fidel Castro Cuba isn't that different from before
Raul Castro has opened up Cuba's economy but not much else has changed.
London comes together to remember its victims
The city held a candlelit vigil in Trafalgar Square to remember the victims of Wednesday's attack.
'Police were not an option.' Undocumented women are now more afraid to report crimes.
If you are an immigrant woman, can you still report domestic abuse and sexual assault without fear of deportation?
'Egypt's Jon Stewart' is trying to rebuild his comedy career in the US. It’s hard.
The Egyptian heart surgeon-turned-satirist laughed his way through the Arab Spring ... right into exile. Now he's in the United States relaunching his career and laughing about that, too.
He won a trip to space, but can’t move freely on Earth
A poem about mental health won him a seat on a commercial spacecraft. So British Muslim Hussain Manawer is set to go to space in 2018. But here on Earth, he's regularly stopped and questioned at airports.
How alone are 'lone wolf' jihadi attackers?
The investigation into what happened in London on Wednesday is just getting underway. But early signs point to a "lone wolf" attack by an ISIS supporter. Research suggests these attackers are often carefully groomed and mentored one-on-one by ISIS operatives in Iraq and Syria.
This journalist never worried about health care — until she moved to the US
Few things reveal the differences between the US and Finland as clearly as health care.
The novel ‘Lucky Boy’ and a timely story of immigration and motherhood
Shanthi Sekaran’s novel, a Global Nation Book Club pick, delves into privilege, motherhood and immigration, legal and not.
Bacteria are thriving in the sky — and they influence the weather
Scientists are uncovering new details about the microbiome in the clouds.
What we know so far about the London attack near Parliament
Britain's parliament went into lockdown on Wednesday as a police officer was stabbed and the alleged assailant shot, reportedly after ploughing down pedestrians on one of London's busiest bridges. At least four people are dead, including the officer and the attacker.
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